Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
ANGELA DAVISBlack women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Discrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.
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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been.
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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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